Earned critical acclaim and an Oscar nomination for The Substance , a film that directly critiques Hollywood’s historical disposal of older women.

: Female directors and writers are finally getting the budgets to tell stories about mid-life and beyond. Breaking the "Invisible" Barrier

: Older female characters are four times more likely to be portrayed as "senile" or "feeble" compared to men of the same age.

These international examples prove that the desire for stories about mature women is a universal human appetite, not a niche Western trend.